Potholes on the road to investing in India infrastructure
Macquarie's Asian Infrastructure Conference in Singapore contemplates how or whether private investors can gain from improving the shambolic state of Indian infrastructure.
India's shambolic infrastructure is well known but sometimes the scale can still astonish. For example, two-thirds of villages have less than 100% electrification. There is 120,000 tons of untreated garbage daily. Sanitation on average stands at 28%. Water supply in the major cities is less than four hours per day. There are 10% base power shortages and 15% at peak.For investors, this means an obvious opportunity: India needs lots of infrastructure built, now. It was a major topic at …
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